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All Ears - The Aesthetics of Espionage (Hardcover)
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All Ears - The Aesthetics of Espionage (Hardcover)
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The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a
seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory
surveillance: the NSA's warrantless wiretapping is merely the most
sensational example of what appears to be a universal practice
today. What is the source of this generalized principle of
eavesdropping? All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage traces the
long history of moles from the Bible, through Jeremy Bentham's
"panacoustic" project, all the way to the intelligence-gathering
network called "Echelon." Together with this archeology of auditory
surveillance, Szendy offers an engaging account of spycraft's
representations in literature (Sophocles, Shakespeare, Joyce,
Kafka, Borges), opera (Monteverdi, Mozart, Berg), and film (Lang,
Hitchcock, Coppola, De Palma). Following in the footsteps of
Orpheus, the book proposes a new concept of "overhearing" that
connects the act of spying to an excessive intensification of
listening. At the heart of listening Szendy locates the ear of the
Other that manifests itself as the originary division of a
"split-hearing" that turns the drive for mastery and surveillance
into the death drive.
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